Himalayan-Arctic Exchange: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Regional Learning in Community-Based Research Methods and Experiences

这个小型研讨会项目，PI亨利亨廷顿，为四个喜马拉雅学者提供资源，加入他们的因纽特人，加拿大同行在努纳武特观察，收集数据，并讨论社区为基础的研究项目，目前正在克莱德河，巴芬岛，努纳武特之间的因纽特人社区。 该项目是北极社会科学计划关于全球气候变化的高纬度/高海拔跨文化观点的国际研究合作设施的一部分。 例如，高海拔冰川正在融化，造成大规模洪水，并威胁到未来的水源。圣地遭到破坏，当地植物群和动物群发生变化。 NSF资助了克莱德河因纽特人的几个社区项目，例如， Igliniit项目--是地理信息工程师和因纽特人之间的一项合作，目的是开发一种交互式的、移动的因纽特人（当地语言）全球定位系统/野外计算机/气象站，使因纽特人猎人能够在狩猎和旅行时记录环境信息; Silarlirijiit项目--是国家科学基金会科学家和当地老人之间的一项合作，目的是更好地了解区域天气模式。 通过将喜马拉雅和北极这两个社区聚集在一起进行技术、知识和科学交流，小型研讨会不仅有可能影响土著社区监测和了解其区域变化的方式，而且有可能使我们了解有关环境的传统知识体系，创造与高海拔地区社区合作的新模式，该项目具有相当的变革性--这是高纬度和高海拔社区与气候变化方面的合作科学家之间首次交流科学/地方知识。 该项目的科学价值相当高，将使人们深入了解基于当地文化的知识体系;将在两个非常不同的地区之间转让技术-与土著社区合作开发的技术;这种交流有可能使科学家获得对社会结构复原力的重要见解，无论当地文化知识如何。

This mini-workshop project, PI Henry Huntington, provides the resources for four Himalayan scholars to join their Inuit, Canadian counterparts in Nunavut to observe, gather data, and discuss the community based research projects currently underway in Clyde River, Baffin Island, Nunavut among the Inuit communities of this region. This project is part of the Arctic Social Sciences Program's faciliatation of international research collaborations on high-latitude/high-altitude cross-cultural perspectives on global climate change.The people of the Himalayas are undergoing rapid climate change comparative to the Arctic. For example, high altitude glaciers are melting causing massive flooding and threatening future sources of water., sacred sites are being destroyed, and changes in local flora and fauna are observed. NSF has funded several community based projects among the Inuit of Clyde River, e.g., the Igliniit project- is a collaboration between geomatics engineers and the Inuit to develop an interactive, mobile, Inuktitut (local language) GPS/field computer/weather station that allows Inuit hunters to record environmental information as they hunt and travel; the Silarlirijiit project - is a collabortion between NSF scientists and local elders to better understand regional wether patterns. By bringing together these two communities, Himalayan and Arctic, for a technological, knowledge, and scientific exchange, the mini-workshop has the potential not only to affect the way in which indigenous communties monitor and understand the changes in their regions but it also has the potential to inform our understanding of traditional knowledge systems about the environment, create new models for working with communities in high-altitude regions, and the ability to increase our understanding of the key social structural elements of how environmental change affects social-cultural processes.This project is quite transformational - it is a first ever exchange of scientific/local knowledge between high latitude and high altidute communities and collaborating scientists on climate change. The scientific merits are quite high, the project will give insights into local culture based knowledge systems; will transfer technology between two very diverse regions - technology developed in collaborations with indigenous communities; and this exchange has the potential for scientists to gain critical insights into social structural resilience that exists regardless of local cultural knowledge.